First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 1st Street in Gilroy, CA 95020. It is one of 44 churches in Gilroy.
We Seek to Be Devoted to Prayer and the Word - Acts 6:4
We are a multi-cultural church that holds services in English in the main sanctuary and in Spanish in our fellowship hall.
1st Street, Gilroy, CA, 95020Service times
- Sunday 9:45am
- Sunday 11am
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Community Prayer Night
- Community Bible Study Ministry
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Latest from Gilroy's First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: A Fathers Glory (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.2–13.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Food Insecurity: 19.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gilroy city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 1,375 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Church of God in Christ Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Outreach Church — 0.5 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Jerusalen — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- The Foothills Church — 0.5 mi away
- Foothills Foursquare Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Centro — 0.6 mi away
- South Valley Community Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- South Bay Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of San Martin — 4.9 mi away
- Beth-El Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Morgan Hill, CA
- Soverign Grace Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Morgan Hill, CA